Registering device for textile-fabric machin ess



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M. KEENEY. REGISTERING DEVICE FOR'TEXTILE FABRIC MACHINES, am. No.491,564. f Patented Feb. 14, 1893.

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M. KEENEY. REGISTERING DEVICE FOR TEXTILE FABRIC MACHINES, 6w. N0.491,564. Patented Peb..14, 1893.

Umrnn STATES PATENT muons MAYRO KEENEY, OF SOMERVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

REGISTERING DEVICE FOR TEXTILE-FABRIC MACHINES, 84 0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,564, dated February14, 1893.

Application filed February 12, 1892. $erial No. 421,356. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAYRO KEENEY, of Somerville, in the county ofTolland and State of Connecticut,haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Registering Devices for Textile-Fabric Machines and theLike, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a device by means of which anaccurate register of the quantity of textile fabric woven or knitted orof yarn made on any loom, frame, or other machine may be automaticallykept; and to this end my invention consists in the details of theseveral parts making up the registering mechanism and in theircombination as more particularly hereinafter described and pointed outin the claims.

Referring to the drawings; Figure 1 is a detail View of the registerwith parts broken away to show one position of the mechanism. Fig. 2 isa detail view of the register with parts broken away and showing themechanism in another position. Fig. 8 is a view in vertical sectionthrough the device looking from the upper left hand corner of Fig. 1.Fig. l is a View of the dial plate.

In the accompanying drawings the letter (t denotes the quadrant on amule spinner with the register 19 secured to it in such position thatthe swinging movement of the quadrant through an arc of about onehundred and sixty degrees and on both sides of a vertical line issufficient to cause the device to register the beats of the quadrant.

My register is applicable to any machine in which there is a rocking,swinging, or rotary part having an extent of movement sufficient topractically invert the device in passing from one position to another.

The operative parts of the register 1) are inclosed in a case b that iswithout seam, opening, or moving part that is accessible while theregister is in position for use, the amount of work done beingregistered on the graduated dial plate that is covered by a glass disk.The mechanism comprises an index hand 0 fast to a rotary shaft d mountedin a frame 6, an intermediate train of gears and a gravity operatedslide f, and the detent feed mechanism. a slide-way g formed in thiscase by rods 9 placed across the frame on the side opposite the detentwheel h and so arranged that the slide has a movement on these rods inthe plane of the wheel. A detent lever h is pivoted on the detent shafth and engages the slide fby extending through an openingf therein. Onthe lever 7b is a pawl 2' formed by a sliding block arranged with abevel tooth that engages the teeth of the detent wheel h when theslidefis moving in one direction but which rises over such teeth whenmoving in the reverse direction, the detent wheel being held againstreverse movement. A detent springj is secured to the frame at one endand, engaging the teeth of the detent wheel with a yielding pressure atthe other end, forms a species of spring pawl that prevents a returnrotary movement of the wheel. The forward rotary movement of the detentwheel is imparted by a lantern-pinion or gear h fast to the shaft ofsaid wheel to an intermeshing cog wheel Z and from that wheel throughthe series an, and n to the shaft cl to which the index hand 0 issecured. The hand 0 is pivoted on the sleeve (1 located on the shaft cland movement is imparted to this sleeve d from the shaft cl, through thecog wheel 0 located on shaft cl to the cog wheel 13 located on aseparate shaft and from a smaller cog located on this latter shaft tothe cog q located on the sleeve.

The operation of the device is as follows When the register is in whatmay be termed its normal position, as shown in Fig. 2 of thedrawingawith the slide at one end of its path of movement or at theouter end of the slideway, the movement of the quadrant to an oppositeposition as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings reverses the incline of theslide-way and causes the slide fto move along down the same to itsopposite position at the inner end of the slideway carrying with it theend of the detent lever h',the pawl on which has engaged a tooth of thedetent wheel h and causes the latter to be turned through one space ofthe stepby-step feed movement of the detent wheeli The movement thusimparted to the The slidef is supported in V detent wheel causes arotary movement to be given to the hand located on the shaft (2 throughthe medium of the pinion h to the wheel Z and the shaft and pinionappurtenant thereto to the wheel m and its shaft and pinion to the wheela and thus to the shaft (Z, and from said shaft through the medium ofthe gear 0 to the gear 19 and shaft and pinion appurtenant thereto andthrough the gear (1 movement is imparted to the sleeve d and to the handlocated thereon. The movement of the hands through the medium of theseveral gears, pinions and shafts is so timed that when one of the hands0 has moved a certain distance and registered a certain amount,as by acomplete rotation, this movementis indi' cated on the dial plate by themovement of the opposite hand a a certain pro-determined distance. Areverse beat of the quadrant or a reversal of the position of the slideso that gravity will tend to cause it to move along the slide way willreturn it to the first position in readiness to repeat its firstmovement and cause a feeding movement of the detent wheel as soon asgravity operates to move the slide. By this combination of parts apositive reciprocation of the slide is produced by the successivereversals of the position of the slide supports and this slidingmovement is translated into a rotary movement of the index hands.

The register can be attached to any part of a machine having a rotaryorswinging movement so as to measure the product of the machine whether itis in yards of thread or yarn, or of yards of cloth spun or woven, andthe product of any machine is accurately registered and can be taken offfrom time to time and enables an attendant to note at any time.

I claim as my invention:-

1. In a registering device in combination with a swinging or rotary partthe registering mechanism comprisinga gravity operated slide, a detentwheel having a movement in one direction, a detent lever connecting thedetent wheel and the slide, a train of gear wheels, an index hand and anindex, all substantially as described.

2. In a registering device in combination with a gravity operated slide,a detentwheel, a detent lever pivoted to the shaft of the detent wheeland supporting a gravity operated pawl and also engaging the slide, aspring pawl operating to hold the detent wheel from movement in areverse direction, an index hand borne on the shaft of a train of gearsintermediate between the said detent wheel and the index shaft, allsubstantially as described.

3. In a registering device, the combination of a gravity operated slide,a detent lever conmeeting said slide with a detent wheel, the pawlengaging the teeth of the detent wheel in one direction of the movementof the detent lever only, adetent retaining spring, and an index handborne on the shaft in operative engagement through a train of gears withthe detent wheel, all substantially as described.

- MAYRO KE ENEY.

Witnesses:

A. E. BRAINARD, GEo. E. KEENEY.

